Over the coming weeks we will be introducing you to our team of Aston Villa bloggers.

Today it is the turn of Dan Bardell, @danbardell on Twitter.

Dan is a 29-year-old Villa fanatic who has had a season ticket with his dad since the age of eight. He moved to London for work when he was 21, but just can’t give up his season ticket and never will. He travels to every home game from the capital, much to his understanding wife Angela’s dismay. He writes weekly for avillafan.com.

Three games unbeaten, but ultimately it’s nine without a win, during which time we’ve scored three goals and offered very little attacking threat. In an attacking sense the performance at Burnley was much improved but yet again we have failed to hang on for a much-needed three points.

Up until the last month I have been a “Lambert apologist”. I have not by any means felt he had done a fantastic job, but I felt there had been mitigating circumstances. I have always been a sensible Villa fan, who looks for positives and who never shouts for the managers’ head during games.

The latter fact I would still never do, for ninety minutes the supporters should be behind the entire team and that includes the manager. However, I have now had enough.

I’ve been pushed too far and I think a change of manager is needed.

I like Paul Lambert, I would never, ever want a manager to fail at Aston Villa FC, I still want him to do well and turn it around, but I really cannot see that happening anymore.

It’s been said in some quarters that a lot of our players celebrated the departure of Roy Keane, I wonder how many of our players would do the same if Lambert left? Since Lambert’s first season in charge the style of football has dramatically changed. Bar Saturday at Turf Moor, our recent tactics have been difficult for even the most patient of Villa fans to watch. I cannot understand the dramatic change over the last year or so.

I honestly don’t mind the lads losing when we have had a go and competed, but I cannot tolerate some of the displays over the last few months, the way we have been set up has offered little hope of Lambert turning things round. I do however note there were positives in Saturday’s draw.

The away fans seemed to turn en masse against Lambert after the game, our away fans are among the best in the country and they in particular deserve better than what’s been dished up by Villa over the last four or five years.

I am not naive enough to think all our problems end with replacing Lambert, but begrudgingly I do think that the time has come for us to look elsewhere for managerial inspiration. I don’t think looking at our squad we have a terrible bunch of players, I just don’t think the current tactical set up and ethos will get the best of the players and in that sense the buck stops with the manager.